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Hi all,

This is my current build, any advice would be much appreciated:

Power Supply Unit
Corsair Memory 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU
OPEN TO CHANGE (Budget - Would like to spend no more than £40 ideally)

Case
Antec 300 Three Hundred Case
OPEN TO CHANGE (Budget - Would like to spend no more than £30 ideally)

Motherboard
AsRock Z77 Extreme4 Motherboard (Socket 1155, Intel Z77, Up to 32GB DDR3, ATX, 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s, Supports NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX, Premium Gold Caps)
OPEN TO CHANGE (Budget - Would like to spend no more than £115 ideally)

Processor
Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz Socket 1155 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
FIXED

RAM
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
OPEN TO CHANGE (Budget - Would like to spend no more than £85 ideally)

DVDR
Basic requirement - Ideally spend no more than £15

Graphics Card
None - Will be using Intel ivy bridge HD 4000 graphics for now, and upgrade to a graphics card at a later stage.

Harddrive
Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive
£64.99
OPEN TO CHANGE (Budget - Would like to spend no more than £70 ideally)

I would really appreciate your valuable advice and suggestions alternatives (where stated above). Thanks.
 
Thanks for your response, sorry I should have made it clearer, this is a brand new build.

I hope the information below answers your questions

Approximate Purchase Date: Assembly should be completed by Mid August
Budget Range: £600
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Numerical and computational analysis, engineering software (CAD, FEA, etc), Work, light gaming, expected to be running most of the time.
Are you buying a monitor: No, using my current monitors and hd tv via hdmi connection.
Do you need to buy OS: Yes, Windows 7 64 bit
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: ******/**** (UK based)
Location: UK
Parts Preferences: None
Overclocking: Not initially, but maybe in the future
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Additional Comments: It is really important that the system can manage numerical computations, efficiently. Currently for example I have an 8 GB RAM PC and there is not enough memory to run some analysis. For my analysis, I can select the number of CPU cores and amount of RAM to allocate, the more CPU cores/speed and the more RAM, the faster the analysis gets done.

The reason I choose the i7 is that I can make use of the hyperthreading technology when running my numerical analysis work.

Thanks
 
sw1ft, what would be you build list for £700? I would be really interested to see it, thanks.

Syncez, thanks for your awesome build list, which PSU would you recommend?

Thanks again.
 
Thanks Syncez,

Originally, my budget was £600... based based on your comments, I might have to stretch it out a little and compromise on some other things (non-PC related).

Therefore my budget min-max would be £600+/1 £10 - £700 +/-£10. I hope that helps.

Thank s again.
 
Thanks everyone, Syncez and Stulid, any reason why you both choose the Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard over the Asrock extreme 4?

I look forward to your further input, thanks.
 
Syncez said:
I think he means that the components that has been chosen so far will work at best for a budgeted high end PC. Changing the components now will probably cost you either more or less.
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You mean the components that has been suggested by everyone I'll not work well together? Which components will need to be changed to solve this problem? Sorry I am new to all this and it is my first build. Thanks.
 
Makes complete sense, thank you. Sorry about the confusion my end. I might even start off with Ubuntu as my operating system. But I sure this might open up a whole other discussion :)
 
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